Working at Walgreens has been a great experience. - Anonymous employee Walgreens Employee Review

4.0
Oct 13, 2013
Anonymous employee
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Pros

great benefits Your given tools to help you perform effectively on the job. respecting others is not just a nice policy but is what is expected. moving up is possible if you are willing to work for it and be open to changes. If you like to be challenged in your work, Walgreens can provide you with positive job related challenges.

Cons

Yearly reviews are supposed to be done using a rating system that all store managers need to go by except the rating system has a big flaw in it. Whatever the interpretation of the store manager is on a certain behavior is the rating the ASM will get. For example Customer Service may be a category that is part of he review. One manager may think that his/her ASM may be at "Exceeding Expectations" while another manager may think his/her ASM is at "achieving expectations" even though both ASMs are demonstrating the same behaviors when dealing with customers. So the ASM who rated lower than the other ASM looks less promotable. This can affect whether or not an ASM is considered for promotion because on paper she may look less qualified. All because her store manager's standard for exceeding compared to achieving is much higher than the other store manager's in the area.

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Cons

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Can be a fun environment. All in whom your staff is. Operating photo was fun and building projects for the customers. Learning about pharmacy operations.

Cons

Work life balance and low pay for what is expected. Not having enough payroll to effectively run a store. My store ran FE on a 320 hour a week budget. That was barely enough to get buy and meet the expectations put out by the company. I was never able to keep a full leadership staff. When a leader called out, I had to stay. There were days I was called away from my own dinner table. SM's were forced to be in the pharmacy for more than half of their day regardless as to what is happening in the FE. I worked over 50 hours a week and barely got to spend time with my family. If I wasn't at the store I was getting a phone call and having to go back to the store.

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